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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

Home › Glossary › Letter R

reaper

Farming
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A reaper is a person or machine that cuts and gathers ripe cereal crops.

Detailed Definition
The reaper is the agent of harvest, traditionally wielding a sickle or scythe and later represented by mechanical equipment. Because reaping ends the life of the standing crop at the moment of maturity, the term has powerful symbolic force. In poetry, the reaper may embody labour, fulfilment, mortality, fate, or divine judgement. The figure of the Grim Reaper transforms an agricultural worker into death personified, while solitary field reapers can evoke song, endurance, beauty, and the dignity of seasonal work.
Example
Example in poetry:
A reaper cutting ripe grain can symbolise labour at the moment of fulfilment; The Grim Reaper transforms the farm worker into a personification of death; A solitary reaper singing may unite beauty, work, and mystery in a rural landscape; A mechanical reaper can represent progress while also displacing traditional labour.
Additional Notes
Reaper can mean a person who cuts ripe grain or a machine that performs the same task. The term's literary force comes partly from the Grim Reaper, in which the harvest worker becomes a personification of death. In agricultural poetry, however, reapers may sing, labour collectively, or embody seasonal skill. Students should identify whether the reference is literal, mechanical, or symbolic. Related terms include harvest, sickle, scythe, binder, sheaf, reaping, and mortality.
Also Known As
harvester harvest worker reaping machine scythe
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